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SPECCY RESOURCES - ESSENTIAL SITES |
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This page last updated on 14 August 2001
[Essential Sites]
[BBS]
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[Reference]
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[Other Sites]
The aim of this section is to put some of the best sites around in
an 'quick reference' section, so newcomers (and others!) don't have to
wade through the listings of all the other sites to find what they're
after. Opinions on which sites should be in this section are welcomed;
mail us with your ideas.
- Martijn van der Heide's World of Spectrum
(commonly abbreviated to WoS) has 99.9% of the Spectrum material
you'll ever need: its associated FTP site has virtually every
Spectrum program ever released, as well as every emulator and a large
collection of utilities. If you don't like FTP, WoS has an HTML
front-end for it all, and
search engines
which allow you to search WoS, NVG (see below) and other sites; if all
that wasn't enough, there's also a fair amount of Speccy-related
documentation, including a mirror of this FAQ, and Martijn's own
utilites (including Taper, the best tape file convertor
available, and the Spectrum Games Database, a powerful program
for organising the enormous collection of stuff you've now got.
If you are finding access to the FTP archive slow, mirror sites are
available:
Finally, there is a CD copy of WoS available; visit Craig Rothwell's
Depository for
details. (You are strongly encouraged to buy this rather than
downloading the entire archive).
- Planet Sinclair II is
the biggest Spectrum related Web site out there, with vast quantities
of information about the Spectrum and its history.
- The Tipshop
is almost certainly your best bet if you're looking for hints and
tips for any game out there.
- The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
is a very well presented site, which is full of news, reviews, screenshots
and cover scans from every issue of Your Sinclair.
- The Sinclair section of Pete Robinson's Classic 8-bit Computers Page
is a great source for Speccy-related documentation, including, amongst
other things, the manual for all the different Spectrum models.
- RetroSpec
is a home for coders of 8-bit remakes, and already includes
lots of remakes of Speccy games, including Rich Jordan's Klass
of '99 (an update of Skool Daze) and Andy Noble's fantastic version of
Manic Miner.
- Hack Attack III
(run by Gerard Sweeney of YS fame) is a vast warehouse of pokes for
almost every Spectrum game.
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